EARED GREBE. 
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The plumage of the adult bird is dusky black on all 
the upper parts, including the head and neck to its base; 
the sides of the head are ornamented with two tufts of 
long narrow feathers of a straw-coloured yellow, passing 
into deep orange; the tips of the secondary quills are 
white; the flanks and thighs are a mixture of deep 
chestnut red and dusky; the rest of the under-parts are 
pearl-white; the beak is black at the tip, and reddish 
at the base; the eyes are crimson red; the legs exter¬ 
nally cinereous dusky, and internally greenish ash. 
The young of the year resemble those of the last species ; 
the white on the cheeks extends farther and reaches down 
the sides of the neck. 
The egg figured 275, is that of the Eared Grebe. 
